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Who comes in for Rids and Langers?
Hayes & Edwards??
Please no. He was a liability down back last year. Gave us run, but butchered kicks on the regular leading to easy opposition goals. Also meant we didn't have his attacking flare in the forward halfReckon Prior has to be dropped for Saad.
Shiel is not our future and is a bit of a liability. I like Martin up forward but if we have to move him back for the time being until we find a better option at HB then so be it.
Jury is still out on the Draper/Bryan combo. Felt like we were a little slow due to it.
cousin brad taking a formula that worked (duz in the guts) and changed it. hope it’s the last we see of those changes
cousin brad taking a formula that worked (duz in the guts) and changed it. hope it’s the last we see of those changes
It’s an important building year for us. I’m not to worried with that result early. Shows some signs. Hope they bring in Edwards and SEH. The back line has gotten worse. No one willing to take the game on. Someone at the club really needs to sit them down and show em what the best sides do out of the back half.
Not that we could've easily had them, but i agree, i dont think they were that impressive, and i don't think we were that bad. They lost the first 5 games last year and nearly made a prelim. Brisbane won the flag after looking like missing finals altogether at the bye. Seasons are long, tonight was essentially still part of pre season for us. I dont think you'd go to the Hawks board and see them jumping for joy tbh.Are they that good? I know it’s early season but we could easily have had them.
Hawthorn find so many ways over the years to be hateable
Yep could have been in it in the 3rd quarter if not for all the behinds as we dominated. It wasn't a bad loss.Didn’t watch the game but assuming with more scoring shots we had an opportunity to be in the game but what the bed because, well, that’s what Essendon does?
Do we have any positives to take away?
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What is the go with boots these days, do the clubs dictate to players what to wear or do they leave it up to the players???Genuinely feel like if we wore proper boots and didn’t slip over constantly that score line would have been extremely close
There are regulations, have been for nearly 2 decades I reckon. No metal studs, must be molded with a max certain length. Don't ask me what it is but pretty much everyone who plays AFL has that length.What is the go with boots these days, do the clubs dictate to players what to wear or do they leave it up to the players???
It was infuriating. So many players caught after falling over. McGrath in the goalsquare was a classic example. Club needs to come down hard on this cos Hawks players hardly slipped and the advantage was huge. Very unprofessional IMO.
Like climbing ice without crampons.
Why not read the threadDidn’t watch the game but assuming with more scoring shots we had an opportunity to be in the game but what the bed because, well, that’s what Essendon does?
Do we have any positives to take away?
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Hello Bombers, I must say I was astonished at lack of high contact free kicks you didn't get compared to Hawthorn. Some of the most biased umpiring I have seen.Free kick Hawthorn
Opportunity to get back into the game yes. Positives where we stayed in the game to an extent and where running just as hard as them at the end. And yes a few of the usual suspects made mistake but when the Hawks got on top the young blokes also got torched defensively a few times which is what you would expect and what we will have to put up with. Would not say we wet the bed. We played a genuine top 4 side and in the first real quarter of the year we played hard for the first 15 minutes of so and then made a few errors and let the game get out of control for 10 or so minutes. Coach also made a tactical error early by allowing them to play a 6 on 5 back half which did not help when we have a couple of defensive lapses. The other thing was they simply burnt us for outright speed out of the back half a few times so not a lot we could do there. Hawks will flame a few sides this year. There defence is better now. There midfield is good. Their team defence is good enough. They really only need a good quality KPF in the side to partner Chol.Didn’t watch the game but assuming with more scoring shots we had an opportunity to be in the game but what the bed because, well, that’s what Essendon does?
Do we have any positives to take away?
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Well both of them are injured and not training so they are not coming back inThose changes will answer a few questions I think.
Last year, we rush back an injured Lav and Wright. If Hayes and Edwards come in, we’d officially have more 2025 debutants at Round 2 than we did for the entirety of 2024